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Uneventful clinical courses of Korean patients with methylcrotonylglycinuria and their common mutations.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2012
Jung Chang-Woo, Lee Beom Hee, Kim Joo Hyun, Kim Gu-Hwan, Lee Jin, Choi Jin-Ho, Yoo Han-Wook
Abstract excerpt
Methylcrotonylglycinuria (MCG) is an inborn error of leucine catabolism and results from the deficiency of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase. Patients with MCG show a highly variable clinical phenotype, ranging from asymptomatic to severe. With the introduction of newborn screening using tandem mass spectrometry, most patients with MCG are identified in their asymptomatic neonatal periods. Owing to their fair...
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